Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-07-14
Ponds for Artificial Propagation of Trout.
American Agricultural

Ponds for Artificial Propagation Of Trout.
American Agricuturst
There are scarcely two locations that
present exactly the same conditions for
the construction of trout ponds and where
the same plans should be carried out with
equal success. Perhaps the best system
for economlzing water and space. ano
which at the same time is the most con
venlent for changing the fish from one
pound to another, is to build series of
four to six ponds. Make them entirely
OF wood. The plan | have adopted is to
build them two abreast, and the others
following in order Each should be about
20 feet long, II feet wide and feet deep.
Unmatched hemlock timber an inch or
inch and one-half in thickness, is suitable
for the purpose. The ground is measur
ed and staked off in the desired uimen-
sions. The excavation is made as if for
one pond, and stakes are driven at regu-
lar intervals, few feet apart, around the
entire excavation. If the bottom is made
of lumber which is necessary if the ground
is porous, that should be laid frat;
scantliDg should run across the bottom
and be attached to the stakes around the
side of the pond upon which to lay it.
If the bottom is made of lumber, the
pond can be kept cleaner and the water
always clear. After the bottom is aid
the sides should be inclosed with planks
running lengthwise, and not straight up
and down, for the reason because that the
wood between wind and water is always
the first to decay. BY placing the planks
lengthwise, new ones can be substituted
with but little expense, whereas if the
boards were in a perpendicular position
1t would necessitate an entire change of
lumber.
A double partition extends through the
center of the excavation; the space be
tween the sides should be about two feet
in width and filled in with earth. This
strengthens the sides of the ponds and
also affords a walk between them. The
two sides are then partitioned off into
compartments of equal sizes. The ponds
on each side of the central division
should have openings of about three
feet between them, into which screens
should be introduced so as to keep the
fish separate and yet allow the water to
flow through. The screens should be so
arranged that they can be readily ro-
moved when it becomes desirable to give
the fish the range of TWO or more ponds.
Little Things,
What absurd little thirgs people quar-
rel about. writes Mary Kyle Dallas. What
trivial matters cause ill-feeling in famil-
les. The mutton being roasted too little
or the beef too much; an opinion about
the temperature of the house or the
style of the curtains that ought to be
bought for the front windows; the defni-
ton of word or its pronunciation, are
things that might be argued pleasantly
about, but surely are not topics worth a
quarrel when peace and good will are of
so much Importance in the home. lit
tie illfeeling is like little seed that may
grow into a large tree which will shadow
the whole house. Many a man and
woman must look back with regret on the
hasty word or the cold reproach which
wss the entering wedge that split house
hold in two, and yet how few make point
of uttering the word that turneth away
wrath
Qusrreling is one of the original
sins, suppose, for the babies sitting on
the floor will fall out over their toys, and
OF will push down the block tower that
the other has built up with great pains
and there will be a name called, and
face made and then mamma
viii be called to settle quarrel, and no
truth can be got at for each is right in
his own estimation, and each has been
wronged by the other. So it is through
life. A reasonable quarrel about great
matters may be settled, and the parties
made friends again; but little tiffs about
nothing are such foolish, intangible
things that reason cannot overcome
them.
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